Ways of promoting your business

Danes promote provincial businesses (04-06-2005) Tomorrow, June 5, is Denmark’s Constitution Day. Viet Nam News discussed its importance with the country’s ambassador to Ha Noi, Peter Lysholt Hansen. How do Danes celebrate their National Day? For Danes, Constitution Day is a symbol of the values imbedded in our constitution that dates to 1849. It guarantees the civil rights of all Danes and clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of the government, parliament and judiciary. On the day, most public offices and educational institutions are closed. All over the country there will be public gatherings where representatives of the government and the political parties will meet their constituents to both celebrate and discuss the different contemporary issues that Danes think important. How can you improve co-operation between Denmark and Viet Nam? There has been positive progress in our co-operation in development, commerce and culture so far this year. The business … [Read more...] about Danes promote provincial businesses

HCM City’s bad debts down to 3.8 percent Ho Chi Minh City’s bad debts had decreased to 3.8 percent of total credit outstanding balance by the end of August, said Director of the State Bank of Vietnam’s municipal branch To Duy Lam during a working session with the city’s National Assembly deputies on October 17. Local banks settled more than 35 trillion VND (1.56 billion USD) in bad debts, he revealed, adding that in the past nine months, total credit outstanding balance in the city rose over 13 percent, while total lending increased nearly 11 percent year on year. At the session, local banks highly valued the role of the Vietnam Asset Management Company (VAMC) in tacking bad debts as well as proposed policies and mechanisms in dealing with the debts. Do Minh Toan, General Director of the Asia Commercial Bank (ACB) attributed difficulties in the work to shortcomings in the procedure of handling bad debts, especially a lack of effective measures to deal … [Read more...] about BUSINESS IN BRIEF 18/10

(CPV) - The 2013 marks 40 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations between Vietnam and Finland (25/01/1973 - 01/25/2013). During the past years, the two sides are joint efforts to promote cooperation in the field of foreign politics, economy, trade, investment, education and training, development aid... put relations between the two countries in depth practical and effective.
Reporter of Communist Party of Vietnam Online Newspaper has an interview with Ambassador of Finland in Vietnam Kimmo Lahdevirta around this issue.
Reporter:The friendly relation and partnership between Vietnam and Finland form favourable basis for new developments. How do you see this relation, especially since you have taken the job as the Ambassador of Finland to Vietnam? Could you please share with us some predominant features in the relation between two countries?Ambassador Kimmo Lähdevirta: During my time as the Ambassador of Finland - since summer 2011 - I have tried to widen … [Read more...] about The realization of the commitments, agreements Vietnam – Finland

Haiphong ranks second in FDI attraction
Over the past eight months, the northern port city of Haiphong has attracted over US$1.1 billion in new foreign direct investment (FDI) ranking second in the country after Binh Duong province in the south.
The city issued licenses for 20 new FDI projects, capitalizing at US$1 billion, and approved 18 existing projects registering to increase an additional of US$77.46 million.
Of the total value, 97 percent comes from Japan, mainly for high-tech industry projects.
Most notable are the US$547.8 million Bridgestone rubber tire company, the US$250 million Nipro Pharma Vietnam and the US$199 million Fuji Xerox Haiphong.
General Electric Vietnam registered the biggest increase in capital with US$43 million.
However, several projects have had to reduce their investment or stop operations. One cut US$47.192 million in capital, two were dissolved ahead of schedule, three were merged, another ran out of operation time, and four more had their … [Read more...] about BUSINESS IN BRIEF 3/9

VietNamNet Bridge – South Korean businessmen have been successfully penetrating Vietnam’s market through the cultural channel. After watching South Korean films, Vietnamese consumers became familiar with South Korean products. This is a typical example of the close connection between business and art, said Phan Cam Thuong, an art critic.Academic art in Vietnam needs support from businessmen Businessmen, please support culture development, but don’t interfere Cultural development support should be set as a criterion to rank businesses Why Vietnamese businessmen remain indifferent to Vietnamese arts? VietNamNet, in an effort to present a multi-angled view on the hot issue namely, the support of Vietnamese businessmen for the development of Vietnam’s art scene, talked with the art critic Phan Cam Thuong after it conducted interviews with many well known figures, artist Tran Luong, MA of Culture Nguyen Dinh Thanh and Associate Professor Nguyen Van Huy.You have … [Read more...] about Business and art closely linked